Taxes staying put and significant changes to education up for discussion.

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Finance Minister Diana Whalen introduced the Liberal government's first budget since coming to power today.

Here are the party leader reactions:

Stephen McNeil

Nova Scotia Premier and Liberal leader Stephen McNeil says the province is going to start the process of doing a line by line review to control spending inside the government.

He says the time has come to go into “fine savings” to make sure government programs are sustainable and efficient.

“There’s about $140 million in wage settlements alone in this document and we had to move forward on them,” said McNeil.

“There was a couple of other priority adjustments that have been made and students have had to deal with them.”

Maureen MacDonald

“The minister of finance has made it crystal clear that austerity for public sector workers is going to be a significant piece of what this government is going to do in the coming years and other budgets,” said NDP interim leader Maureen MacDonald.